Fish Videos

Check out the best videos we captured of Tenmile Creek fish in their beautiful habitats. Videos are posted to Vimeo and linked here. The videos are organized by tributary or reach and by species.

While salmon and steelhead dominate the least impacted streams, Tenmile Creek also has a colorful array of exotic warm water species that escape from ponds and flourish in warm mainstem reaches in summer. Fun to watch, but bad news ecologically. We need to work together to restore the Tenmile Creek watershed, conserve water and prevent pollution in order to expand habitat suitable for salmonids.

Big Rock Creek

Territorial Green Sunfish
Steelhead and roach feeding actively
Transparent green sunfish
Coho salmon juveniles in stratified, isolated pools

Cahto Creek

Steelhead in pool created by a Cahto Tribe habitat improvement structure
Instead of steelhead, this pool on the Cahto Reservation had sunfish that spilled from ponds upstream
Steelhead young of the year swim and feed on upper Cahto Creek in Sept 2019
Slow motion video of feeding steelhead trout juveniles
Spawning stickleback in a pool alcove along with roach and steelhead juveniles

Lower Streeter Creek

Pool in lower Streeter Creek with lots of young steelhead
Streeter still flowing and young of year steelhead thriving in October 2019

Tenmile Creek

Pool above Peterson Creek in lower Tenmile with lots of roach
Despite lower Tenmile being warm, steelhead yearlings fed in a riffle in Oct 2019, Lower Tenmile
Tons of California roach in lower Tenmile Creek downstream of flow gauge, Lower Tenmile
Although flow was perennial, lower Tenmile favored roach over steelhead due to elevated temperature
Steelhead feeding with roach in slow motion, above wet ford
Steelhead Feeding Lane, above wet ford
Green sunfish and roach swarm in lower Tenmile Creek at Vassar's
Lone male Chinook in Tenmile Creek downstream of Hwy 101 in December 2018
Upwelling below Streeter creating local refugia in Tenmile Creek
Steelhead sitting in riffle upstream of roach on Black Oak Ranch
Cool temperatures supported juvenile steelhead in Tenmile Creek below wet ford
In dry years bullfrog tadpole proliferate in isolated Tenmile Creek pools
Water temperatures are cool in fall upstream of Tenmile Cr Rd and steelhead are present, Tenmile Falls

Peterson Creek

Peterson Creek is a perennial coldwater stream that joins Tenmile a 2.5 mi. above the SF Eel